Drilling delamination study on carbon reinforced laminates - tool and feed rate effects

Abstract

The characteristics of carbon fibre reinforced plastics had widespread their use. In order to join different components, drilling is often necessary. It is known that a drilling process that reduces the drill thrust force can decrease the risk of delamination. In this work, three combinations of the drilling process are compared: tool diameter and geometry and feed rate. The parameters considered for analysis include: thrust force, delamination extension and mechanical strength. This work shows that a proper combination of the drilling variables can contribute to reduce the delamination damage.